On Monday, Sen. Mark Kelly, a vocal anti-2nd Amendment advocate, was unusually quiet in the wake of the Biden administration’s decision to grab “ghost guns.” The Department of Justice announced that it was simply “modernizing the definition of a firearm.”
While Kelly was quiet, the most outspoken defender of the 2nd Amendment in the Republican Primary, Blake Masters, was not.
“Our founders built their own guns,” tweeted Masters. “They intended us to as well — it’s the ultimate political act, a liberty the 2A protects.”
Our founders built their own guns. They intended us to as well — it’s the ultimate political act, a liberty the 2A protects.
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) April 11, 2022
Masters then tweeted, “I made this “ghost gun” a few months ago. Very legal & very cool. But now, thanks to Biden’s new rule change, I would be a felon if I made another one just like it today.”
I made this “ghost gun” a few months ago. Very legal & very cool. But now, thanks to Biden’s new rule change, I would be a felon if I made another one just like it today. pic.twitter.com/ZkatLvK46s
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) April 11, 2022
Masters was not the only Arizona politician to call out what many Arizonans consider a “gun grab.”
Congressman Andy Biggs tweeted, “Joe Biden’s ghost gun rule is an attack on the Second Amendment. If Democrats actually want to curb the staggering violent crime rate they should focus on the woke DAs who refuse to prosecute violent criminals and the liberal city councils that are defunding the police.”
Joe Biden’s ghost gun rule is an attack on the Second Amendment.
If Democrats actually want to curb the staggering violent crime rate they should focus on the woke DAs who refuse to prosecute violent criminals and the liberal city councils that are defunding the police.
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) April 11, 2022
Prior to his election in 2020, Kelly, husband to former Rep. Gabby Giffords, ran the couple’s gun control-focused group Giffords PAC. Upon his election, Kelly handed the reins of the PAC over to David Chipman, who was then nominated as the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for the Biden administration. The PAC’s lack of popularity, and stiff opposition in the Senate to Chipman, forced Biden to withdraw that nomination.
On Monday, Biden also got around to naming a new nominee. Biden announced that Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, is his latest nominee to lead the ATF.
According to CNN, “Dettelbach faces long odds in the Senate largely because gun-rights groups routinely oppose any nominee for the agency that regulates guns,” and he is “relatively unknown among groups with interest in gun issues including law enforcement groups.”
In 2013, the owner of a Tucson gun store, Diamondback Police Supply, canceled Mark Kelly’s publicity stunt purchase of AR-15. Owner Doug MacKinlay determined that due to Kelly’s admissions that his purchase was not for personal use, it was in his “company’s best interest to terminate this transaction prior to his returning to my store to complete the Federal From 4473 and NICS background check required of Mr. Kelly before he could take possession this firearm.”
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